The hyper-scale data-center is not the future, it's the past. It's the dead-end of kind of desire that dominated (Western) tech culture since Turing's Imitation Game: to construct ever larger infrastructures to overcome the limitations of the material world.
The contradictions and negative consequences to the material world of this approach have become so stark, they now inspire a popular, global movement of resistance.
felix stalder
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